Today's News

Most local schools in the city and county districts showed great improvements last week as the Kentucky Department of Education released the 2016 test scores for the Unbridled Learning system. Both the Campbellsville Independent and Taylor County School districts were named as distinguished/progressing districts. Taylor County Schools were classified as a district of distinction/high progress district, while Campbellsville Schools were classified as being a high performing district.

Taylor County High School's volleyball team won the Red Hawk Invitational at Seneca High School in Louisville over the Sept. 23-24 weekend and then swept Campbellsville 25-6, 25-6, 25-15 on Monday night in regular-season action.

Taylor County, which improves to 27-2 on the season, has won 68 of the 82 sets its played this season.

Coach Stephen Zink’s squad will play three matches in Florida during fall break (Oct. 5-7) before two final regular-season matches.

Campbellsville Independent School Board members approved to raise the 2016-2017 real estate and personal property tax rates by 4-percent Tuesday in a special called meeting.

The 4-percent increase tax rate, which means revenue is 4-percent more than the prior year, will increase from 60.6 cents per $100 to 62.5 cents in 2017, which would be an increase of 19 cents, or $19 per $100,000 in property value.